Francis William Newman Quotes

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People sometimes forget that there are vegetables and vegetables. There are vegetables that have not so much nutriment in them; but there are others – all the farinaceous foods such as wheat and barley – which contain a greater amount of nutriment than beef or any other animal meat.

Francis William Newman
God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

Francis William Newman
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Francis William Newman
It is frequently analogy which guides the experienced to what are called good guesses.

Francis William Newman
To infer that iron may be melted, because brass may be melted, is analogy: or to infer the same, because lead, or because tin or silver, can be melted, is still analogy. But to reason that iron may be melted, because brass and copper and lead and tin and silver will all melt, is no longer analogy, but induction.

Francis William Newman
On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if the excessive vagueness of the word like be not checked, arguments from analogy may be of the wildest and silliest kind.

Francis William Newman
Analogy is like a hound, always on the scent, and on the alert for every indication of game.

Francis William Newman
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

Francis William Newman
I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Francis William Newman